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PUBLIC INSTRUCTION. [ART. — .
ary session, eighteen hundred and sixty-four, chapter

Interest to be
paid agricultu-
ral college.

ninety, the annual interest or income of said invest-
ment shall be regularly paid by him without diminu-
tion to the Maryland Agricultural College, and the
leading object of said college shall be, without ex-
cluding other scientific and classical studies, and
including military tactics, to teach such branches
of learning as are related to agriculture and the
mechanic arts, in order to promote the liberal and
practical education of the industrial classes in the
several pursuits and professions of life, and the
money so to be received by the said college shall

How to be
applied.

be applied to the objects enumerated in the said act
of congress, and to no other purposes whatsoever,
and the said college shall in all respects comply
with the several requirements of the said act, as to
making and recording experiments, and reporting

Proviso.

the same as therein prescribed ; provided, that noth-
ing herein contained shall be construed to prohibit
or preclude the general assembly, at any time here-
after, from making any other disposition of said
funds, not inconsistent with the act of congress
making said donation.

State board of
education, ex-
officio trustees

From and after the passage of this act, the state
board of education shall be, ex-officio, members of the
board of trustees of the said college.

In force from March 21, 1865. See hereinafter sec. 151.

1868, c. 53 enacts the following:

1860, c 53, s 1.
Payments to
agricultural
college

145. The treasurer upon the warrant of the comp-
troller, is hereby authorized and directed to pay to
the board of trustees of the Maryland Agricultural
College, the sum of forty-five thousand dollars, the
said sum to be payable in three annual instalments,
of fifteen thousand dollars each,' the first of said
instalments to be paid on the first day of April
eighteen hundred and sixty-six, and the balance in
two equal instalments on the first day of April,